No other elementary textbook costs the publishers so much to make ready for the market as does the school geography; and none comes in for a greater share of abuse, by teachers and schoolmen generally. If the teaching force of the country really know what they want in this particular, they have never succeeded in making it clear. The criticisms in the main have been iconoclastic rather than suggestive. The present paper, while frankly stating a personal view-point, will attempt, in the end to contribute something on the constructive side.